# How I escaped AI autopilot

> Original title: How I Escaped AI Autopilot

- Source: Every
- Published: 2026-11-03T05:00:00.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/s0604653b2dao78t71r4asigp
- Original: https://every.to/working-overtime/how-i-escaped-ai-autopilot-rerun

## Summary

Every's Katie Parrott says she sent a client a finished article draft, then reread the brief and found she had already completed the same assignment four weeks earlier. She says the episode, along with research on AI reliability, shows that more reliable AI leads people to check its work less, and she argues for slowing down to give AI output the scrutiny it needs.